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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers show how circadian rhythms help boost infection recovery

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers found that circadian rhythms – the biological clocks of the body – can influence outcomes related to influenza infections, providing clinicians with insight about how biological processes can be used to optimize care for critically ill patients with respiratory viral infections.

Journal: Journal of Clinical Investigation
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Raine Medical Research Foundation

Los Angeles wildfires prompted significantly more virtual medical visits, UW-led research finds

University of Washington
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research led by the University of Washington and Kaiser Permanente Southern California sheds new light on how the 2025 Los Angeles fires affected people’s health, and how people navigated the health care system during an emergency.

Journal: JAMA Health Forum
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Study shows quitting smoking completely is best way to protect your health

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, new research from Johns Hopkins Medicine adds to existing evidence that smoking fewer cigarettes does not eliminate cardiovascular disease risk, and quitting entirely is the most effective strategy for improving health.

Journal: PLOS Medicine
Funder: Food and Drug Adminstration, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Hormone-disrupting chemicals from plastics shown to promote a chronic inflammatory skin condition

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide evidence that hormone-disrupting chemicals commonly found in ultra-processed food and single-use water bottles may contribute to the development of or worsen the condition in some people.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Dermatology’s Ina R. Drew and Howard J. Drew Innovation Fund, Cutaneous Translational Research Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Oncology Tissue

Researchers identify why some people with HIV achieve remission after antibody treatment

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Study from the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT and Harvard has found a property of a specific kind of immune cell that may explain why some people can keep HIV in check

Insight could be harnessed to eliminate the need for daily antiviral medications

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Lundbeck Foundation

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